Todd Bishop
Varun Puri announces Yoodli expanding from roleplays into an AI Platform for Human Skills with five capabilities
Varun Puri announces Yoodli’s expansion from roleplays into a broader AI Platform for Human Skills with five capabilities to help organizations upskill employees and measure skills outcomes.
Foundation Models Go Vertical with leaders from Open AI, Mistral, Clarify and Oumi
In this episode of Shift AI, Manos, CEO of Umi, Patrick Thompson, CEO of Clarify, Brian Hall, CMO of Mistral AI, and Ben Gaffney, Deputy General Counsel at OpenAI, join host Boaz Ashkenazy for a live panel recorded at Seattle Tech Week on who actually owns intelligence in the enterprise AI era. One panelist argues that any enterprise still treating a frontier model as its core intelligence layer is renting something it should own, and predicts that in two years we'll look back at CTOs defending that approach the way we look back at driving a Ferrari to the grocery…
Agility Robotics Seeks $400 Million Funding at $1.75 Billion Valuation to Advance Digit Warehouse Robots
Agility Robotics is reportedly raising $400 million at a $1.75 billion valuation to fund its Digit humanoid warehouse robots, with lead investor WP Global and participation from SoftBank. The company recently announced new improvements to Digit's capabilities and continues pilot testing with Amazon, a previous investor.
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See all 38Seattle-Area Startups Raise Record $3.5B in Q3 Led by Stoke Space, Temporal and Helion
Seattle-area startups raised a record $3.5 billion in Q3, driven by large rounds for Stoke Space, Temporal and Helion, even as U.S. venture funding fell 40% from the prior quarter.
Yoodli launches AI platform to build courses, coach employees and track workplace skill gains after $300M+ valuation
Yoodli is expanding from AI practice sessions for public speaking into an “AI platform for human skills” that builds training courses, coaches employees during meetings, answers workplace questions, and tracks skill improvement. The startup—valued at over $300 million in December and backed with nearly $60 million from investors—aims to move into corporate training alongside firms like Workday and LinkedIn.
Foundations launches 'Foundations Design and Engineering' to connect businesses with startup founders for project-based AI work
Foundations launched Foundations Design and Engineering to connect businesses with its startup founders for project-based AI planning, development, and implementation, giving founders paid work and exposure to customer problems as fundraising tightens.
